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10 New Ideas for Machining, Tooling, Programming, and Machine Shop Operations

March 30, 2016
Machine shops need new ideas, and new technologies, to keep them engaged, aware, active, and competitive. Here are 10 ideas we discovered this week to make machine programming tooling, machining, and shop operations more effective and productive.

If you operate a machine shop — or any manufacturing operation with a focus on machining, and all the surrounding process technologies like automation, CAM programming, tool design and selection — you face a steady flow of new technology and product releases, updates and improvements intended to address the large and small, general and arcane details that concern machine operators, programmers and shop owners and managers. Here’s a list of the 10 ideas for setting up, cutting, turning, grinding, inspecting, tracking parts and tools, and so on …  that caught our attention this week.